Overview

• BJP MP Nishikant Dubey warned that without Narendra Modi as its face, the party could win fewer than 150 seats in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections
• Dubey asserted that Modi will remain the BJP’s central leader for the next 15 to 20 years and that the party depends on his appeal rather than institutional processes
• He declared that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s suggestion for leaders to step aside at age 75 does not apply to Modi because the party needs his continued leadership
• Dubey credited Modi’s personal charisma with shifting poor and non-traditional vote banks toward the BJP, describing electoral victories as driven by a personality cult
• He threatened that locals would physically confront Maharashtra’s Thackeray brothers wherever they visit in response to their stance on the Marathi language row